Big Boy

Here are a few pics of Charlie at our playgroup yesterday when we had the birthday party. Look at him sitting up hanging out with his girlfriend, Lily!!! He's still a little unsteady and every once in a while completely lunges backward, so I was always close by!

Five Months and FOOD!

Yesterday, Charlie turned 5 months old and we started rice cereal! I've been excited for weeks about this, since his doctor said he could start after his four month check up, but Paul wanted to wait until five months. So the day came, we were all excited... and well, Charlie seemed like he could take it or leave it. He just didn't really seem to care! He never cried for more or for me to stop. Maybe because it was that flavorless old rice cereal mush mixed with water, I don't know.

See what I mean? This morning we tried it again and I made the cereal a little thicker. We got a few smiles, but when I would stop feeding him he didn't really care.

In other news... Charlie is going to his first birthday party today! In our playgroup, one of the babies is turning one today and we are having a Monkey Party, so I offered to make the cake. I have to share it with you because I am so proud of myself!!!! :) It's really not much at all, but if you know us, you know Paul does all of the cooking in this family. I've been know to throw a few pans of brownies in the oven or maybe a casserole or two, but that's pretty much it. So even though the icing is a little (okay a LOT) less than smooth, I'm pretty happy with it!

Four Months Old

Charlie is four months old today... yes, already! I can't believe how fast the time is flying... I tried taking a good picture of him today for his month by month frame, and I thought, "I'll put him on his tummy and get a good pic of him holding his head up." Well, I tried, and tried, but could just not get the right pic because he kept doing this:

Can you believe it??? I thought he would never roll over because he just didn't seem close at all and now he's doing it over and over just all of a sudden! My baby boy is growing up. :)

Laughing!!!

Sorry about the camera-work... but this is his first time to really laugh! Had to share...

Sweet Smiles

I just had to post these pics... Charlie has just recently started (barely) smiling at us and of course we are grabbing for the camera every time it happens! And we look like crazy people trying to get it out of him... but it's all worth it...

Coming Home

We came home from the hospital last Saturday...finally getting around to more pictures...

We decided he slightly looks like the pope with the white hat and cross on it that's just a little too big. :) His outfit says "For this child I have prayed" and also has a cross on it, but we never took a picture of that!! Guess we'll have to play dress up later just to get the picture...